THE Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Tony Anenih has assured that the party is not perturbed by speculations in the media, stressing that 2015 presidential election is a strategic issue.
Chief Anenih said on Wednesday in Minna, Niger State, before the closed door reconciliation meeting...

Clashes between rival ethnic groups in central Nigeria killed at least 27 people on Wednesday, witnesses said, in a region straddling the country's largely Christian south and mostly Muslim north that is prone to civil unrest.
Witnesses said armed Fulani herdsmen attacked the villages of Da Jak and Attakar in Plateau...

The Federal government has offered to sell a major power station, the 500MW Omotosho power plant, to China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC), the Chinese engineering firm that upgraded the plant. This was announced on Wednesday in a statement by the Bureau of Public Enterprises.
Nigeria is privatising the bulk of its...

Brazilian oil company Petrobras is to auction off its stakes in Nigerian oil fields to raise cash for domestic projects, a deal that may fetch up to $5 billion, sources close to the deal said.
The state-controlled company, formally known as Petroleo Brasileiro SA, has hired Standard Chartered to run the...

The silent division within the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Kwara state blew into the open on Wednesday with a directive from the party’s chairman, Mr. Kayode Olawepo, cancelling a meeting and rally organised by supporters of the party’s gubernatorial candidate in the last election, Mr. Dele Belgore.
Belgore and...

FORMER Secretary to the Oyo State Government in the administration of Senator Rashidi Ladoja, Mr. Ayodele Adigun, narrowly escaped assassination on Tuesday night when his Akobo residence in Ibadan was attacked by some hired killers.
Though, the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, and now a member of the Accord Party...

Irked by the assaulted meted out on two members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Asaba, Delta Stat by two women, members of the association on Wednesday threatened strike action.
The assault and battery, which occurred at about 10.30pm a week ago, immediately...